Improvement in pruning-shears



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Improvementn Pruning Shers N0.122,603, n A Patentedlah.9,1872.

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BEUBEN HALL, OF OLYDE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRUNING'SHEARS.

Speciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,603, dated January 9, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

I, REUBEN HALL, of Clyde, in the county of Sandusky and State of Ohio, have invented certain Improvements in Pruning-Shears, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, A is a concave jaw With shank. .B is a convex cuttingblade with two slots, o and u. C is a shank with an extension, x. D is a link. a ande are bolts. a is the I'ulcruin-bolt passing through slot o in blade B into jaw A. Shank C is pivoted to jaw at s. x is an extension of shank C, to Which link D is pivoted. Link D passes back on the opposite side from shank G, and is bolted to shank C, with boltc passing through slot u of' blade B. Shank C and link D forni a support and guide for jaw A and blade B to secure firmness and prevent lappin g of the jaw and blade.

I do not claim the slot as new; but as heretofore made the slot has to be very long to let the shears open far enough to receive a large limb in the jaw near the fulcrum, by Which Claim.

1. I claim the combination of the slots o and u in the blade B, substantially as shown and described. y

2. I claim the coinbination'of jaw A, blade B, shank (l, link D, slots 0 and u, With bolts a and e, substantially as specified.

' REUBEN HALL. Witnesses: i

MILo HUNTER,

B. O. BEIGHAM. (44) 

